Kitto

Kitto, equipment hire for artists in London

Kitto is a London-based equipment hire service run by a team of artists and producers with over twenty years of experience in the arts. It presents itself as the newest division of KitMapper, and its stated aim is to make professional equipment hire more accessible and affordable for the city's creative producers.

The service describes itself as dry hire: equipment is delivered packed and ready to use, with no technical assistance included. The company says its work is rooted in gallery production, and that both the kit and the team's expertise adapt to projects, exhibitions, film shoots, installations and events.

Equipment hire catalogue

Kitto's catalogue is organised into several categories of professional kit:

• Projection: projectors, screens and mounts.
• Sound: speakers, PA systems and mixers.
• Screens: flat-screens, video walls and LED walls.
• CRT: cathode-ray tube monitors, Sony cubes and BrightSign media players with looping playback.
• Computing: Macs, mini PCs and VR equipment.
• Lighting: fixtures, DMX control and haze machines.
• Accessories: stands, mounts and rigging.

Hire aimed at galleries and exhibitions

The company offers hire options designed for galleries, with periods that match the length of exhibitions — weeks or months rather than days. This service line is aimed at exhibition projects that need to keep equipment throughout the install and the show.

Projects and collaborations

Kitto has worked with institutions and spaces including 180 Studios, Anglo-Japanese Foundation, Blue Marine Foundation, Bold Tendencies, Camden Art Centre, Copeland Gallery, Cosmic House, Cromwell Place, Dazed, Fitzrovia Chapel, Focal Point Gallery, Gillian Jason Gallery, Goodman Gallery, New Art Projects, Peckham 24, Peckham Digital, Peckham Market, Studio Voltaire, Tate, The Ingram Collection, The Koppel Project and Whitstable Biennale.

Among the projects documented on its website are Very High Frequency by Hilary Lloyd (Studio Voltaire, London, 2025), The Ward Revisited by Gideon Mendel (Fitzrovia Chapel, London, 2026), Prinks by Aarony Bailey (Gillian Jason Gallery, London, 2026), And these deceitful waters by Adham Faramawy (Focal Point Gallery, Southend-on-Sea, 2024), In the Dark, We Play by Lina Lapelyte (Cosmic House, London, 2025), Come to Ground: Battles by Sophie Clements (New Art Projects, London), Mother Bent by Alicia Radage (Whitstable Biennale, 2022) and The Fury by Shirin Neshat (Goodman Gallery, London, 2023).

Kitto Artist Prize

The company runs the Kitto Artist Prize, a competition for emerging artists. In 2026, Kat Easto won the first edition of the prize with the work Dreams of Inertion, selected from nearly 600 applications and twelve exhibiting finalists. That same year, Kat Easto and René Lazový were among the seventeen shortlisted, and their work was shown at ANNEX. The 2026 open call was held in collaboration with The Koppel Project, as part of its tenth anniversary, and included a group exhibition and a one-night film programme at ANNEX.

First year of activity

Kitto launched in 2025. According to the company itself, its first full year was defined by collaboration, experimentation and support for artists at every level.

Location and contact

Somerset House, Strand London WC2R 1LA · Phone: +44 7479 262173 · Email: enquiries@kitto.rent